Closed Bug 452872 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Greek Symbols not rendering correctly in Firefox 3

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 429017

People

(Reporter: enrique, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When entering a font that represents a Greek letter, the font tag does not render the symbol correctly.

Example:
<font face="Symbol">a</font> does not render correctly

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://sequoiasci.com/Articles/ArticlePage.aspx?pageId=118
2. Look at dP = e-cxP0/Ab(q)dAdxdW
Actual Results:  
The symbol face for the font tag is not rendered correctly.

Expected Results:  
Proper rendering of the symbol

This is also happening with the Webdings font face.
This is not an issue with Firefox 2
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
(I suppose using the actual characters like
    dP = e<sup>–cx</sup>P<sub>0</sub>/Aβ(θ)dAdxdΩ
rather than relying on the quirky font would make this work also on platforms that don't ship "Symbol".)
Enrique, never use the "Symbol" font. Read this:

http://www.alanwood.net/demos/symbol.html
http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html

Just use HTML entities like &beta; &theta; &Omega; ...
This works well in all Browsers on all platforms.

> This is not an issue with Firefox 2

This is an issue with Opera and Safari on Windows and with all Mac and Linux browsers.
This would be easy, but we use a tool that does Ajax editing and wraps Symbols in a Font tag. Our end user depends on this tool and we cannot make a change to it since it is third party. We will submit a request from this tool vendor to be more XHTML compliant, but the fact remains that a tool that was once there is no longer available in the update, and there are many users who depend on this tag to work on Mathematical equations.
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